Kumar arrived in the national capital on April 9. He was welcomed at the airport by party leaders, including Janata Dal United’s national working president Sanjay Kumar Jha.
“I have arrived here to take the oath,” Kumar told reporters at the airport.
Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan will administer the oath to Nitish as a member of the upper house.
With Kumar assuming his Rajya Sabha role, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance is likely to elect a new Bihar chief minister on April 14.
“Bihar will have an NDA government and will certainly follow the Nitish Kumar-created ‘Nitish model’, as it has been running for the past 20 years,” state minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said.
Nitish resigned as a member of the State Legislative Council on March 30 after he was elected to the Rajya Sabha.
The JD(U) supremo was elected to the Upper House of Parliament on March 16.
